Multimedia stands as one of the most challenging and exciting aspects of the information era. The extremely rapid growth of this field means that books even just a few years old may offer information that is already obsolete. Multimedia Image and Video Processing offers not only up-to-date research and developments, but does so in a way that provides a solid introduction to each topic that builds a basis for future study, research, and development. It deals with every aspect of image and video processing, at both algorithmic and systematic levels.

Emerging Technologies in Intelligent Applications for Image and Video Processing presents the most current research relating to multimedia technologies including video and image restoration and enhancement as well as algorithms used for image and video compression, indexing and retrieval processes, and security concerns.

This book is intended to attract the attention of practitioners and researchers in academia and industry interested in challenging paradigms of image and video coding algorithms with an emphasis on recent technological developments. This book highlights the current research in the image and video processing area such as image fusion, image segmentation and classification, image compression, machine vision algorithms and video compression.

Dr. Ling Guan is a Tier I Canada research chair in multimedia and computer technology and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ryerson University. Dr. Guan is a fellow of the IEEE, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He earned a PhD from the University of British Columbia. His research areas encompass image and multimedia signal processing and communications.